You're safe because you're so trapped inside your culture. Anything you can conceive of is fine because you can conceive of it. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Do we have free will, or do the mass media and our culture control us, our desires and actions, from the moment… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
To merely observe your culture without contributing to it seems very close to existing as a ghost. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I never think I'm making fun of my culture. In fact I'm making fun of myself, because I catch myself doing some… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
And if you can find any way out of our culture, then that's a trap too. Just wanting to get out of… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I've always been very curious about fringe cultures where people temporarily adopt a different social model or way of presenting themselves. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Every generation wants to be the last. Every generation hates the next trend in music they can't understand. We hate to give… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
People die', she says. 'People tear down houses. But furniture, fine, beautiful furniture, it just goes on and on, surviving everything.' She… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Imagine books and music and movies being filtered and homogenized. Certified. Approved for consumption. People will be happy to give up most… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Our culture has made us all the same. No one is truly white or black or rich, anymore. We all want the… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I am a writer and the greatest compliment I can get is to know that I've contributed language to the culture, that… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Civilization is a condition which unsocial misfits impose on the rest of popular, easygoing, family-oriented humanity. Only the miserable, the failures, the… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
People who don't want to get on with their lives, and don't want to accept responsibility for the direction of their lives… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Every generation wants to be the last. Every generation hates the next trend in music they can't understand. We hate to give… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Intellectual culture seems to separate high art from low art. Low art is horror or pornography or anything that has a physical… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Marla tells me how in the wild you don't see old animals because as soon as they age, animals die. If they get sick or slow down, something stronger kills them. Animals aren't meant to get old. Marla lies down on her bed and undoes the tie on her bathrobe, and says our culture has made death something wrong. Old… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share
The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didnt see their thoughts as belonging to them. When ancient Greeks had… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I went to sexaholics anonymous for six months. For research. I wanted to see the structure of the groups, how they were… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
It's because we're so trapped in our culture, in the being of being human on this planet with the brains we have,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
You're a product of our language, and how our laws are and how we believe our God wants us. Every bitty molecule about you has already been thought out by some million people before you. Anything you can do is boring and old and perfectly okay. You're safe because you're so trapped inside your culture. Anything you can conceive of… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share
An important part of building a new culture was allowing people to complain about their past. At first, the more they complained,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
As a culture, we believe that if we kill something, we've killed the issue. That's why so many books end with death,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Public taste changes and the aesthetic of a culture changes over time, so the idea isn't to appeal to the aesthetic of… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they want to give their lives to something. Advertising has these… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Because after you've crossed some lines, you just keep crossing them. And there's no escaping from constant escape. Distracting ourselves. Avoiding confrontation. Getting past… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
According to Plato, we don't learn anything. Our soul has lived so many lives that we know everything. Teachers and education can only remind… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
His saliva tasted like the wet dicks of ten thousand lonely truck drivers. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“We drive west the rest of the night, away from where the sun will come up, trying to outrace it, trying not to see… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Nobody's told me anything to date that I've been completely reviled by. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Verbs allow you to communicate a story in a much more converged or involuntary way for a reader. The verbs allow you to come… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
